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Brief: Google: We’ll run a white spaces database (for free!)
Last year, the FCC opened TV “white spaces” for use by unlicensed wireless devices, but this “WiFi on steroids” won’t be shooting up until the FCC also approves the databases that will be necessary to avoid interference. Today, Google announced that it plans to run one copy of the database itself, and it assured the FCC that it has the cash to do so for a minimum of five years. The geolocation database system will tell new white spaces devices what channels are available for use, and what power the devices can use for transmission.
Continue reading »Mac cloner guilty, but "hackintosh" tools will persist
Apple has won a landmark victory against Mac clone maker Psystar, though it doesn’t spell doom for the rest of the hackintosh industry just yet. US District Judge William Alsup ruled late last Friday that Psystar had violated Apple’s copyrights when distributing Mac OS X with its machines, and that the company was also in violation of the anti-circumvention provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. As a result, Judge Alsup dismissed Psystar’s counterclaims and ruled in favor of Apple, but Apple still has a long road ahead if wants to shut down other hackintoshers.
Continue reading »Time to Take a Stance on the Future of Journalism
OK, I admit it. I’ve become one of those snooty guys who is telling the rest of us what the future will look like. Case in point: I’m one of the authors of the “Internet Manifesto,” a collection of positions about the future of journalism that was published yesterday.
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